Daily Mail | Now that’s smart technology: Computer teaches another to play Pac-Man and the student bot eventually beats the teacher

April 2, 2014

Computers will soon be able to learn from experience, tell jokes and even flirt, according to Ray Kurzweil, the company’s artificial intelligence expert.

The 66-year-old entrepreneur and futureologist, who predicted the rise of the internet and that a world chess champion would one day be beaten by a computer, has said machines will outsmart their makers by 2029.

In an interview with The Observer, he said, “My project is ultimately to base search on really understanding what the language means.

“When you write an article, you’re not creating an interesting collection of words. You have something to say and Google is devoted to intelligently organizing and processing the world’s information.

“We want computers to read everything on the web and every page of every book, then be able to engage in intelligent dialogue with the user to be able to answer their questions.” [...]

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If by 2029 AI is more intelligent than any human what would there be any use of AI having “intelligent dialogue” with mere humans who would by then inherently be by definition less intelligent. It’s like this 2,000 something rated chess player who refused to play me unless he took his queen off the board. If AI is like humans by 2029 wouldn’t they, and any uselessly scientifically minded person so out intelegenced by AI, be bored? A previous report of yours referred to efforts to train computers to predict certain chemical reactions, why not all, to the point actual teams of graduate students to actually use beakers, etc. would not be necessary. It would be easy to predict the phasing out of higher education and all its institutions, except of course the power and money part.. Even Einsteins, if not part of the new social elite, better learn to like washing dishes. 2029 seems more like Brave New World. I would definitely accept that you are good at PREDICTING the AI future, I assume YOU will be well prepared for it, but can you predict the consequences to more than 7 billion people left, intellectually at least, unnecessary?